Avoid Social Issues, GOP Urged (Homosexualists, Pro-Aborts Co-opt Tea Party Movement)

Politico ^ | Sunday, November 14, 2010 | Ben Smith and Byron Tau

[kristinn]

A gay conservative group and some Tea Party leaders are campaigning to keep social issues off the Republican agenda.

In a letter to be released Monday, the group GOProud and leaders from groups like the Tea Party Patriots and the New American Patriots, will urge Republicans in the House and Senate to keep their focus on shrinking the government.

"On behalf of limited-government conservatives everywhere, we write to urge you and your colleagues in Washington to put forward a legislative agenda in the next Congress that reflects the principles of the Tea Party movement," they write to presumptive House Speaker John Boehner and Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell in an advance copy provided to POLITICO. "This election was not a mandate for the Republican Party, nor was it a mandate to act on any social issue."

The letter's signatories range from GOProud's co-founder and Chairman Christopher Barron — a member of a group encouraging Dick Cheney to run for president and who has been known to post images of his bare torso to Twitter — to Tea Party leaders with no particular interest in the gay rights movement.

As of Sunday evening, the letter had 17 signatories. They include tea party organizers, conservative activists and media personalities from across the country, including radio host Tammy Bruce, bloggers Bruce Carroll, Dan Blatt and Doug Welch, and various local coordinators for the Tea Party Patriots and other tea party groups.

"When they were out in the Boston Harbor, they weren't arguing about who was gay or who was having an abortion," said Ralph King, a letter signatory who is a Tea Party Patriots national leadership council member, as well as an Ohio co-coordinator.

King said he signed onto the letter because GOProud seemed to be genuine in pushing for fiscal conservatism and limited government.

"Am I going to be the best man at a same sex-marriage wedding? That's not something I necessarily believe in," said King. "I look at myself as pretty socially conservative. But that's not what we push through the Tea Party Patriots."

That indifference is essentially the point of the gay conservative group.

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TEXT OF LETTER

Dear Senator McConnell and Representative Boehner

On behalf of limited government conservatives everywhere we write to urge you and your colleagues in Washington to put forward a legislative agenda in the next Congress that reflects the principles of the Tea Party movement.

Poll after poll confirms that the Tea Party’s laser focus on issues of economic freedom and limited government resonated with the American people on Election Day. The Tea Party movement galvanized around a desire to return to constitutional government and against excessive spending, taxation and government intrusion into the lives of the American people.

The Tea Party movement is a non-partisan movement, focused on issues of economic freedom and limited government, and a movement that will be as vigilant with a Republican-controlled Congress as we were with a Democratic-controlled Congress.

This election was not a mandate for the Republican Party, nor was it a mandate to act on any social issue, nor should it be interpreted as a political blank check.

Already, there are Washington insiders and special interest groups that hope to co-opt the Tea Party’s message and use it to push their own agenda – particularly as it relates to social issues. We are disappointed but not surprised by this development. We recognize the importance of values but believe strongly that those values should be taught by families and our houses of worship and not legislated from Washington, D.C.

We urge you to stay focused on the issues that got you and your colleagues elected and to resist the urge to run down any social issue rabbit holes in order to appease the special interests.

The Tea Party movement is not going away and we intend to continue to hold Washington accountable. Sincerely,

Christopher R Barron
Chairman of the Board, GOProud

Andrew Ian Dodge
Coordinator, Maine Tea Party Patriots

Pam Stevenson
Coordinator, Arizona Tea Party Patriots

Dianna Greenwood
Executive Director, New American Patriots (Ashland, OH)

Jim Mason II
Chairman and State Coordinator, Nebraska’s Tea Party Patriots

Ralph King
Co-coordinator Cleveland Tea Party Patriots
Co-coordinator State of Ohio Tea Party Patriots

Jack Lien
Coordinator, Tea Party Patriots of Great Malls (Montana)

Tammy Bruce
National Radio Talk Show Host

JP Weber
Coordinator, Annapolis (Maryland) Tea Party

Doug Welch,
Blogger and member Southern Illinois Tea Party

Bruce Carroll
Conservative Activist and Blogger

Pam Stout
Coordinator, Sandpoint Idaho Tea Party Patriots

Dan Blatt
Conservative Activist and Blogger

Everett Wilkinson
Coordinator, Florida Tea Party

Jimmy LaSalvia
Executive Director, GOProud

Paul Crockett
President Santa Clara (California) Tea Party
David Thor Andreasen
Cumberland County (Maine) Tea Party

[antisocial]

“This election was not a mandate for the Republican Party, nor was it a mandate to act on any social issue.” I agree and I will write or fax my reps.

Ditto!”

If you attended any TEA parties you would know that one of the biggest issues was a social issue - the unconstitutional health care law that was passed against the will of the majority of the American people. It is also an economic issue, but mandates a great amount of social engineering.

[Dengar01]

Taxed Enough Already is the name. One could just as easily argue that social conservatives are co-opting the TEA party movement.

Everyone please look up the term "agent provocateur". Short definition - someone who infiltrates an organization (in this case tea party) to do harm to that organization from the inside.

I really find it quite repugnant to hear the phrase "Gay Conservative Group". That is like saying "Conservatives for Progressive Values", "Conservatives for Global Warming", "Conservatives for Obama", ect...

[Dengar01]

@Kristinn,

This is why 98% of Illinois FReepers were supporting the third party candidate for Senate over UBER RINO DIABLO Mark Kirk who would go along with everything these gutter groups stand for.

Mark Kirk is pro cap and tax, 100% rating from NARAL (Abortion Group), anti-gun, pro-gay, the list goes on and on.

People like DJ and Billyboy were screaming from the roof top about Mark Kirk but he still won and he is going to make Olympia Snowe look like Jesse Helms.

[LomanBill]

[You are dragging social issues into the Tea Party history where the never existed in the first place.]

Bullshyte, and IBTZ.

What's the word in a circle with a red line drawn through it in the lower left of this photo:



Abortion?

Notice the position of the sign-holder's hand as they recite the pledge of allegiance - including the words "UNDER GOD". That man has been part of the local Tea Party assembly since the BEGINNING around here - and so have I. And WE have had in mind from the start to take our country back from moral miscreant libertards.

So go peddle purple Trojan Fatal Liberality to somebody else.


NO SALE

[LomanBill]

Actually, if you bother to read the American first principles preserved in stone on the walls of the Jefferson monument, you'll see there's no mention of The Party(tm) at all - neither left nor right wing.

Jefferson, was an AMERICAN.

[Captain Kirk]

Communist Goals (1963) Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963

Heck, I don't much like Congress but even I don't think it is a CP organization. That was the question. Seriously, the fact that something is cited or quoted in the Conggressiional Record doesn't give have any necessary credibility as a source. Look, for example, at the junk Charles Rangel puts in there.

Again, where did these "goals" come from e.g. what actual CP document are they taken from? If it is just one man's opinion of what he thinks the CP wanted, it is pretty much worthless....unless documentation can be provided.

[ichabod1]

They weren’t arguing about the Abomination Against Nature, or the Crime of Abortion on Boston Harbor because there wasn’t anyone who had the chutzpah to try to tell civilized people it was something they had to accept and affirm.

I would not sign such a letter. Such a letter implies that these individuals would vote for an end to DADT and would push homosexual “marriage.”

In a perfect world, my principles might have to go along with the “marriage” thing or actually the doing away with of marriage as a legal contract, because people shouldn’t get special favors just because they sign a partnership agreement.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

I'm a pretty homophobic guy, and quite sure I don't agree with a lot of the social agenda of gay fiscal conservatives. But if I do happen to agree with them on size of government issues, why wouldn't I cooperate with them on those issues?

There are political alliances available out there to accomplish a great many goals if we go about it intelligently. There is a clear majority in this country that opposes the current trend of more government. Fine -- unite with those people, and solve that problem. We've actually got a political majority on the gay issues as well given that African-Americans generally are conservative on that. So then you unite with them to defeat things like Prop 8.

But if you insist on doing it all at the same time, you will lose too many fiscal conservatives because of social issues, too many social conservatives because of budget issues, and accomplish neither objective. And the only people who benefit from that are those who are liberals on both fiscal and social issues.

We just delivered a pretty crushing defeat to the left based on budgetary/fiscal issues, and the smart tactic is to exploit success and pursue rather than stopping to loot the baggage train and see what other goodies we might find.

[ichabod1]

Nobody ever sticks up for masturbation.

[B Knotts]

These people aren’t doing that.

Yes, they are. They are not even acknowledging that it is the advocates of anti-family policies that are using government to attack us. They talk as if we're the ones starting the fight.

But, we won't be bullied by the radicals or by these phonies.

FYI: One more time: FR's God-given Life & Liberty constitutional conservative activism agenda!!

[LomanBill]

[if we end up with an elite ruling class and an underclass]

 

Look at history.  What moral framework were the later, reproductively dysfunctional, nature-abominating Emperors of Rome operating within?  

 

The very same (im)moral framework being peddle by these post-modern, reproductively dysfunctional, would-be Emperors of America.

The very same (im)moral framework that existed in...

“The Pink Swastika is a powerful exposure of pre-World War II Germany and its quest for reviving and imitating a Hellenistic-paganistic idea of homo-eroticism and militarism.”        
Dr. Mordechai Nisan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

http://www.defendthefamily.com/pfrc/books/pinkswastika/html/the_pinkswastika_4th_edition_-_final.htm

 

Those who do not learn from the past will stupidly repeat it.  

 

Is it 1933 yet, again?

[Grunthor]

No. You ignore the social issues at your peril. I will say however that until you own all three branches, it’s a smart policy. Once you have the entire government, hit ‘em hard.

[B Knotts]

I'm fed up with people telling me, and others about: trans fats
salt
sugar
Happy Meals
obesity
over/under nourishment
smoking
lesbians
gays

You need to pay attention. The people trying to regulate your diet are the same people who are trying to foist same-sex marriage on society, and stop you from speaking against it.

[Bokababe]

If you attended any TEA parties you would know that one of the biggest issues was a social issue - the unconstitutional health care law that was passed against the will of the majority of the American people. It is also an economic issue, but mandates a great amount of social engineering.

I've been to 5 Tea Parties. Mandated Healthcare is a "FREEDOM issue" --the government doesn't own your body, nor your bank account--if it did, that would be slavery, not freedom.

Virtually every political issue can be turned into "a social issue" if you press it far enough, but that doesn't make it one.

The point is that the Tea Party got broad agreement, both in person and at the ballot box, on the ideas of smaller government, lower taxes and government generally staying out of our personal lives. It repudiated the Liberal agenda -- that's true-- but that does not mean that all who voted for Tea Party candidates wished to exchange one government social agenda for another one that is equally intrusive into our personal lives. To abuse that trust by imposing another set of restrictive rules could squander whatever progress we've made in defeating Obama's tyranny.

[eleni121]

These anti human practices were not in the constitution because originally the default on these issues was pro life and pro heterosexuality.

The Secular Left Christian bashers have co-opted and twisted these norms -—and are now trying to and indeed have succeeded in codifying them.

Default has now become gay and infanticide - OK— — the norms.

[little jeremiah]

Oh, I’m just a yapping little chihuahua.

Trying to do my duty.

Just ‘cause it’s the right thing to do!

:-)

[LomanBill]

>>The golden calf...

Exactly. Here's a typical GoProud worshiper:


Precccccious!

[LomanBill]

[you will lose too many fiscal conservatives because of social issues,]

Then they weren’t really “conservative”, were they. Good riddance.

[little jeremiah]

Nonsense. The people writing the letter are members of the GOProud, an all-homo-agenda organization. Their legislative agenda while supposedly fiscally conservative (not even that, really), pushes these among others:

1. Homosexual “marriage”

2. Repeal of DADT and open homosexuals in the military

3. Punishing other countries who have laws homosexuals don’t like

4. Special funding for “gay owned” businesses

5. Tax measures giving homosexuals who live together special breaks

That’s all I can remember off the top of my head, if I go to their site or search my docs I could find the entire list.

Their head dude already stated that their ONLY interest is “GAY” issues. ONLY INTEREST - got it? They are NOT conservative! They’re homosexual activists who want to pay a bit less taxes and own guns! They are NOT ALLIES!

[little jeremiah]

Nonsense. The people writing the letter are members of the GOProud, an all-homo-agenda organization and people who somehow are deluded into thinking that an alliance with avowed homosexual activists who admitted sole interest is advancing the homosexual agenda is helpful to them. Anyone alligning themselves with a homosexual activist organization such as GOProud is either willfully ignorant (unlikely) or morally blind. Not only that, making nice with homosexual activists is NOT a winning tactic for Republicans, in fact just the opposit.

The GOProud (proud of anal sodomy) legislative agenda while supposedly fiscally conservative (not even that, really), pushes these among others:

1. Homosexual “marriage”

2. Repeal of DADT and open homosexuals in the military

3. Punishing other countries who have laws homosexuals don’t like

4. Special funding for “gay owned” businesses

5. Tax measures giving homosexuals who live together special breaks

6. Fedgov funding for renovating various “downtowns” or “old towns” of cities. Oddly enough, that’s where homosexuals generally like to live.

That’s all I can remember off the top of my head, if I go to their site or search my docs I could find the entire list.

Their head dude already stated that their ONLY interest is “GAY” issues. ONLY INTEREST - got it? They are NOT conservative! They’re homosexual activists who want to pay a bit less taxes and own guns! They are NOT ALLIES!